

It's going to be photorealistic, but it's going to have - on top of that - there's going to be like "anime" elements.Īutolog's appearance in prior Need for Speed games has been as an asynchronous multiplayer leaderboard for friends to compete against each other outside of traditional multiplayer.Criterion wants to make it feel like a real city, even though, it's going to be a fictional city fictionalised version of Chicago: it's called "Lake Shore City".You can customise all your pieces of the car, that's back.Let's start with some of the other stuff: Chicago has previously appeared in Need for Speed: ProStreet and Need for Speed: The Run. He reiterated a previous leak relating to the game's setting potentially being set in Miami, similar to the fictional setting of Need for Speed: Heat, but backtracked on the validity on the information given to him at the time, and denounced it in episode 42.įollowing the correction for the game's location, he began listing features and aspects he felt confident were present in the upcoming game, as well as the game taking place in a fictionalised rendition of Chicago called "Lake Shore City".

Well they delayed it to December - one month - and they are gonna take a few extra weeks before showing it off. Here's what's coming in Q3 and Q4 our fiscal Q3, so Need for Speed, and I remember saying at the time: yeah, the plan is November. He was unable to disclose an exact reason behind the delay but speculated it may be related to the amount of time Criterion worked on Battlefield 2042. On the same day as the reddit posts, Jeff Grubb revealed during Giant Bomb's Game Mess Mornings show that Criterion's Need for Speed was planning for a November 2022 release but had been delayed until December 2022, and the delay also includes adding extra time before revealing the game. The video shows the use of punk art and pop art elements relating to the player's actions, with a skull and crossbones highlighting they've crashed, and multiple pedestrians walking around next to the artistic structure. Īlso included in the reddit post are images of a Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe against a structure with a set of punk rock aesthetic wings from either side of the car, and a second showing the game's setting with a harsh red monochrome and an all white body car with an overlaid image corruption.įollowing the post, a video was leaked onto imgur showing the video the images originate from, in which a Bel Air is failing a jump and crashing into an artistic structure.

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The post highlights the reintroduction of Speedcross, a game mode featured in Need for Speed: Payback an upgrade system with performance tiers, similar to car classes in Need for Speed: World and "Car Meets", in which players can enter a car meet location to compete against other drivers and place wagers. On August 25, 2022, a post on the r/GamingLeaksAndRoumours subreddit listed event types believed to be featured in Criterion's Need for Speed (2022) title. The game's development was pushed back by a year in March 2021, with Criterion pausing development of their Need for Speed game to assist DICE and their in-development "Battlefield 6", which would later be revealed as Battlefield 2042.
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Alongside Criterion, Codemasters Cheshire is assisting in development of the game and the Need for Speed series as a whole. įirst announced on Jas part of Electronic Arts' "EA Play Live June 2020" presentation, it was shown during a section about the publisher's next generation series of games, targeting the then unreleased PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware.įollowing its first official reveal in June 2020, it is being developed by Criterion and is described as to "include a new Need for Speed game that is bringing some astounding visual leaps, developed by the Criterion team, who have launched some of the most highly-rated games in franchise history". Need for Speed (2022) is an upcoming game in the Need for Speed series and has a targeted release window of between September to October 2022.
